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sidner, fredricka whitfield in for kate baldwin. today, this is cnn news central >> anything you can raise my can raise better. this is the rallying cry for donald trump this morning as president biden bass and the glow of a historic 26 fund raising hall and just one night and takes a brand new swing at donald trump's stamina. there was no mulligan needed for a golf joke overnight that may have just teed up president biden's newest trump attack line. the biden campaign excluded press and network cameras from the fundraiser, but just released a selected clip and they chose this particular moment. >> raleigh saginaw, milwaukee, phoenix, vegas, hot lana, the philly suburbs, manchester, dallas, and houston. donald trump as far as we can tell, has just been trying to win a

third championship at his own golf course my question to you, sir, can voters trust a presidential candidate who is not one a single trump international golf club trophy at long last, sir, have you know, chip shot. >> we'll look i'd be happy to play. i told him as before, when he came into the oval what he was being is before you go sworn in, i said, i'll give you three strokes if you carry your own bag all right then cnn's mj lee joins us. now, mj biden's campaign could have chosen any moment this was a long discussion with two former president and biden himself why choose this particular one? >> well, i mean, i think this clip showed that there were three presidents on stage last night. but really the overwhelming focus of the evening was a fourth president who wasn't in the ruin. that of course is donald trump. you know, the force of the evening. i think last night came from the fact that we had a president biden being joined by

his two predecessors in echoing some of the themes that we've heard him talk about. so oh much over the last few months that he sees donald trump as a threat to democracy the individual freedoms that he believes another donald trump presidency would be threatened by. and i think just given this setting, it was clear from the readouts that we've gotten from yesterday evening that the tone was serious, but there was a good dose of humor that was laced into everything, right? so for example, we know that the president said at one point were at a real inflection point in history three things are changing this guy denies there's global warming. this guy wants to get rid of not only roe v. wade, which he brags about having done, he wants to get rid of the ability of anyone anywhere in america have, the right to choose all the things he's doing. our old a little old, and out of shape. >> the >> other headline of course, is just the dollar figure, the campaign saying that they've raised upwards of 26 million that of course comes from just

the sirius star power that we saw in one room, the three presidents, celebrities, artists, and very, very expensive tickets. and this morning we should note the president before he heads back to water michigan dc is going to be speaking to his national finance committee. this just goes to show how much they're trying to shore up. this one racing and also the cash advantage of the biden campaign currently has against the trump campaign. >> the old and out of shape talking about ideas that donald trump has not necessarily going directly at him where the opposite is true with donald trump has been mercilessly attacking biden for his age. it'll be interesting to see how this all plays out. mj lee, thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> fred all right. nanny nanny boo, boo. oh, it's on the trump campaign is vowing to outraised president biden. sources tell cnn that they are expecting to bring in at least 33 million at a west palm beach event next weekend, some of the biggest gop donors are expected to attend, including some who were on the side lines or

backed other candidates during the primaries. cnn's kristen holmes is joining us now with more on all this. so kristin, could this be enough to help trump catch up and match biden's cash reserves >> well, look, we're going to see the actual impact of these fundraisers until the financial disclosures at the end of next month, but it does seem highly unlikely trump could actually catch up to biden in this short amount of time. i mean, by the end of february, biden's campaign had $71 million cash on hand. donald trump's campaign only had 33.5 million. now, if you just add what they got out of these major fundraisers, or what they're expecting to get biden would still have a significant lead here would be $97 million to $66.5 million. now of course, that does not include everything they are raising. it doesn't include any of those small dollar donations you're just talking about two significant fundraisers. one thing to note about that $33,000,000 number that came from the campaign. they say they are expecting to raise it, but obviously we're going to

wait and see what happens. they they gave those numbers out on a de biden's campaign was saying they were going to raise over 25 million. so because some competition there now this is significant for donald trump for a number of reasons. one, it will help chip away at biden's financial edge. he is significantly ahead. this will help with that. >> the other part of this >> that is important for trump is that you're seeing these gop donors, as you mentioned, really coalesce behind the former president. many of them were sitting on the sidelines, many of them we're trying to support an alternative to donald trump. now, you are seeing them line up behind the former president saying we're not just going to give you our support, but we're also going to help you financially >> i think i just went off. >> i think that means that that was >> that was a hard wrap that they just gave me so he's significant for those races >> hard wrap, but we love you. all right. chris thank john. let's keep the lights on >> that was really traumatic. that was like dramatic mood lighting for kristen holmes i

want to get some of that action right there. it'll make the rest of the show very dramatic >> all right. >> i just want to replay the video that the biden campaign released from the front razor overnight, a note they did not allow press cameras in which was actually very unfortunate this is from the campaign. keep in mind, this is clearly what they want you to see >> raleigh saginaw milwaukee, phoenix, vegas hot lana, the philly suburbs, manchester, dallas, and houston donald trump as far as we can tell, has just been trying to win a third channel pepijn ship at his own golf course. >> my question to you, sir, >> can voters trust a presidential candidate who was not won a single trump international golf? club trophy. >> at long last, >> sir, have you know, chip shot? >> we'll look i'd be happy to play. i told him once before when he came into the oval when he was being is before you go sworn in, i said i'll give you three strokes should be carry your own bag

>> so the reason we played that again is this not unlike another comment from the front raise or from biden that sounds a lot like it. he said of trump, quote, all the things he's doing, there are so old, a little old. >> and out of shape with me now is democratic strategist and former chief of staff for senator joe manchin, crisco, phoenix and former romney presidential campaign chief strategy is stewart stevens is stored. i don't really want to mince words here. president bindings is making what amounts to fat jokes about donald trump going after his literal fitness as a way, i think to maybe mitigate the overall age issue, how effective do you think it will be? >> well, look, i think that donald trump is a dog that chases every car. so he'll respond to this. i mean, that's something in laken project that we've done doubt on to great effect anytime that you're distracting somebody from a positive message like that, it's a good day for your campaign and look, this is a good line of the cac for biden.

both of these are going to be our last president. they were born in the shadow of world were both are going to be our oldest president. the real question here is, who has new ideas versus old ideas? and i think that's an axis that the biden campaign really needs to drive that's because biden yesterday, oldest president, but his best group of voters in 20 were under 30 voters. he has one of the youngest administrations in history. and ideas are stoked that actually help people in the future from having a better life if you're on insulin to infrastructure rupture and rural broadband, all of these things >> and what >> ideas really those this party i used to belong to have now what is any sort of policy? that trump is other than sort of ranting about the border that he didn't fix. and i think that this is a vacuum in the republican party that is going to become increasingly obvious as his campaign goes on >> chris, i have heard debates among strategists. there are some the democratic party who

want to go after trump as a threat to democracy. this apocalyptic threat to democracy. and there were others who say do what president biden did overnight at this fundraiser, which isn't a way make him seem ridiculous. where do you come down? >> well, i'm not sure it's an either or i'm not sure actually, either one is right. if you look at the polls right now i mean nationally, it's racist. tighten a little bit battleground polls don't look great when you dig into the polls. what do you find? voters have a lot of concerns about president biden's economic record, his positions on immigration, all these kind of key issues were he has a record that he can actually talk about, but voters haven't heard. so part of the challenge here, this is where i kind of get a little uneasy when everyone loves the muddling and back-and-forth. political operatives love it. it's mixed them all like gleeful voters

don't write the one thing i will tell you in all the research we've done over the last year plus, is voters are tired of this kind of ugly back-and-forth. trump is not going to stop that. that is his modus operandi. he cannot change. i'm not sure engaging with it is really the solution. it may make democrats feel great, but it doesn't really, i think address the challenge here, which is voters need to feel better about where the country is and where the country is going to go under biden if they don't, the race is going to stay close. and that is not a good place to be >> stewart, you want to weigh in there >> yeah. look, i think that the difference here is the candidate you have someone in trump who has absolutely no discipline and it gives you a great ability to. manipulate them. and i think that the biden campaign can do both. i think they can go high and low at the same time. i think you can go out and give big speeches about democracy like he did it valley forge. >> and >> i think you have to make this not a normal race. you

know, on election day when obama ran against romney, we lost by the way, but both candidates had 50% favorable tone election day you're never going to see that for a long time, given what's happened to the republican party so i think you can do both. i think you can do both effectively. and i think there's different roles for different areas of the campaign. i mean, in the lincoln project, we know how to get to trump and trump responds. and that's a big, big difference. >> because i want to ask you this because you were sort of joe manchin was in sort of the the no labels world, at least dabbling in it for a little while. chris christie was dabbling in it for awhile considering maybe a third run with no labels. he now says he won't do that as reasoning as he thinks anything that can help donald trump. he says he doesn't want to get involved in or friend jonathan martin wrote in politico he said that christy considered a third party bid at all is in part an indictment of joe biden. what do you think of that?

>> well, here's what i think is really clear. and again, i'm gonna go back to all the polls that we've seen for months now, voters are dissatisfied with both of these candidates for different reasons, right? now, people always will argue, well, there's, that's false equivalent. it's not fair to make that judgment. i get it. but there's a reality about how voters perceive and feel right now that if you ignore, you're going to make really bad decisions. so there is a so-called opportunity for a third party in it. it hasn't materialized because not really a viable candidate that doesn't mean however, and this is where it gets really problematic. that doesn't mean that a third party candidate, for example, rfk, can't not have an impact on some of these key battleground states. if he's on the ballot, he's going to have an impact. now, we're going to debate for months what kind of impact is going to be but speaks to a larger dynamic here. and the larger dynamic is yes, trump is a terrible candidate. he's a terrible president. we don't want them

back in office. that's the democratic mantra. but there are voters that are very uneasy about president biden. >> we you can ignore that and pretend it doesn't exist, or we can confront it. and to me confronting it is going out there communicating a very clear positive vision about what you've done and where you're going to go with over the next four years if you win, simply getting into this back-and-forth, going to make everybody happy. i'm not sure it's going to change fundamentally the dynamics of the race and we're, i don't want to be, i don't think most people want to be as two weeks before an election. and we're exactly where we are right now because that's not a great place. >> critical thena stuart stevens, great to see you both this morning. thanks so much. >> all right. thank you. >> still ahead this morning. wrongfully detained in russia for a full year. now accused of it's been ahg for doing journalism. is the us any closer to freeing journalists evan gershkovich, also clearing the massive debris of an entire you're bridge will get an up close look at all of the

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hopeful because those efforts are just so incredibly delicate and they can be smashed at any moment. but i do think that there is important moment this week for us to look at pretty closely. and that is that earlier this week, evan gershkovich has pretrial detention, was extended for a fifth time. we should note this time by 90 days. the us ambassador in russia came out and said that it was a particularly painful extension just given how many times this has happened, of course, called the charges against him category berkeley untrue, but then we also heard an interview yesterday with christiane amanpour speaking with the special envoy for hostage affairs, roger carson. and what carson said was that he's hopeful that the russians actually see the next 90 days as a potential opportunity to come to an agreement with the us to secure evans release? the reason for that is that once the trial actually begins in russia, typically the russian system wants to get through that trial and so that could be 91011 months where it's

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joins me now with a very latest game. so what are we expecting today now that that huge crane is in place >> so fred that's a major update on this salvage operation, getting the biggest crane on the east coast into the record seen we know two more cranes are on their way according to the transportation secretary. >> but as you look >> behind me, just getting a sense of the scale of the wreckage that they're dealing with. this, the dali, this container ship ship is about the size of the eiffel tower, just turned on its side and then you can see that massive bridge. and there's more of it below the surface of the water than what you can see above it. and so they're going to need much more than those cranes. and so right now engineers with the army corps of engineers are trying to figure out how they're going to be able to cut that bridge into pieces. and then slowly remove it. but bear in mind, they're going to have to do it in a really delicate and sensitive way because there are concerns that those four remaining construction workers who are still missing, maybe trapped under some of that debris and they still want to

send in divers to recover those men once it can pull all of that wreckage out. and so this could take days. fred, as we know that this has been a very difficult time with the port of baltimore shut down thousands of jobs, really in question right now, workers wondering how they're going to make money, millions of dollars of the local economy at risk here in the baltimore area. and then of course there is the emotional side of this freda last night so the orioles, the baltimore orioles baseball team here in the city have a hold a moment of silence for the victims here as well as honoring the officers who stopped traffic, perhaps saving lives in the moments before that crash, investigators, fred are still trying to figure out what caused that a power outage, that total blackout on the ship. the reason that pilot lost steering, lost the ability to actually maneuver the vessel just before hitting the bridge. the ntsb may not have those answers for weeks. they spoke

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we were a year ago. >> that's an incredibly low number. that is a very low number. you don't have to be a statistician to know that 16%, not a very good number look, we have been low since that, basically the beginning of the pandemic are certainly during the joe biden presidency. we're up to 30% now, but i still should note that more americans say that the economy is poor than say it's excellent or good, but still positive news for a change. >> and it's interesting that people are spending with way they are. what about the future when you look into the future, look into your crystal ball, airy, look into the crystal ball. so you know, you're talking about that consumer. consumer sentiment and they're basically two elements to that. one is the current economic conditions and one is what is expected down the line. so this is consumer sentiment, expected index. and look again, 77.4, that's basically in line with the average since 1978, 77.6. it's up significantly from where we year ago when it was just 59.2 very much up significantly from this low point back two years ago when it's just 54.3. but again,

it's only now getting to levels that we were back in march of 2021. so it's an average economy looking forward, not a good economy, but we've had such an extraordinary hit the economy during the pandemic. it is interesting to see how it's jumping up. yeah, i do want to add ask you about whether or not biden is getting a bump from this. i mean, he is the president, the is doing better. you would think they always say it's the economy stupid, right? that was james carville. but here, approve of binary economy. they made voters and americans may be feeling better about the economy overall, but it is not touching joe biden yet look, look in his approval rating on the economy, just 38%. that is not different very much within the margin of error where we were a year ago, within the margin of where we were two years ago. not anywhere close to where we were back three years ago in april of 2021. so on the voters minds, they may think the economy is doing better, but they're not yet connecting that to joe biden, who is economics like approval rating still is close to the basement than the ceiling that we now

know who the two presidential candidates >> what >> is the trust factor there between the two of them? >> yeah, you know, this is an issue that joe biden does not want this election be decided on it at least the way voters are currently feeling donald trump is the idea of this election being decided in the economy. look, trust biden, or trump more on the economy in april of 2020, trump was up five, look at where we were just last month trump up 20 points another issue on which donald trump insignificantly better position than he was four years ago. >> harry enten thank you for breaking it all down for us. thank you. wael for shade it. >> fred, he got all the numbers. i see you got all the goods there. but asked me about the lottery later on friday. >> i want do want that second number is i'm going to buy a ticket. >> good. all right. well, it's not about the economy then what is it and what is it about donald trump? once again, on the attack slamming the daughter of the judge, overseeing his new york hush money trial the former president calling her, quote, a rabbit, trump hater. those

attacks are prompting rare and striking comments from a federal judge who says he is very concerned here's what judd, reggie walton told cnn's kaitlan collins >> it's very disconcerting to have someone making comments about a judge and it's particularly problematic when those comments or in the form of a threat especially if they're directed at one's family. i mean, we do these jobs because we're committed to the rule of law and we believe in the rule of law and the rule of law can only function effectively when we have judges who are prepared to carry out their duties without the threat of potential physical harm, have you been on the receiving end of more threats since you've had the january 6 defendants in your court yes, i've had more threats than what used to be the case, yes, i have received a greater number of threats as a result of that incident. and the fact

that cases arising out of that incident have appeared before me. i mean, it was rare. i've been a judge for over 40 years and this is a new phenomenon, not saying that it didn't happen before, but was very rare that i would ever receive any type of a threat regardless of what type of cases i was handling and unfortunately, that is no longer the case. i know the marshals service has seen a significant increase in the number for threats against judges. and i think obviously that's very, very, very concerning >> it's rare that we get to hair, hair from a sitting federal judge. but obviously this is a gravely important issue. i wonder what made you speak out? >> well, i you know, i am concerned because like i say, we have had judges who've their lives or family members who have lost their lives as a result of individuals who have

been litigants in their courtroom and i think it's important in order to preserve our democracy that, we maintain the rule of law >> judge reggie walton has presided over several cases related to the january 6 insurrection and said both he and his daughter have but also received threats. jon sarlin here that from a sitting federal judge, shifting gears now to remarkable and very candid interview you know, larry david from curb, your enthusiasm and of course seinfeld. well, he's got a lot of opinions about a lot of things and he shares them in great detail with our chris wallace, anchor and host of who's talking to chris wallace, the new episode airs today on macs let's listen to some of it >> you and i went to dinner with your lovely wife, ashley? yeah. last fall and you very

nicely picked up the check and the next day i wrote you i thought a very gracious thank you. note and you then responded and i have saved this and i literally quote that you wrote back to me and you said, keep in mind next time when you pick up the check, you will not be getting a next day. thanks. >> yeah. what what so objectionable. >> thank you's do we have to >> give out i gave one. no, i understand. but if you if you take me out to dinner and i say, hey, chris thank you so much. what do i have to do? where is it safe to send something the next day? hi >> i'm not what everybody's sending all these next day. thank you. texts. you. thank somebody. when you leave, that's an off. >> told me something else every day social interaction, that kind of greases the wheels of humanity that you've think is stupid >> like the happy new year i

don't understand why anybody would say happy new year to me. i can't even respond to it on a text. happy new year. why why are you sending that to me? i don't care. i don't care about a new year. what's the difference? what's the difference? it's happy new year. what does it even mean? >> well, it does even a better question, which i think it was actually one of your episodes, how long after january 1st? yeah. do you have to keep saying how about another words? >> yes, i was nice and said january 7, but now i'm revising that day, january 3rd. >> so january >> 3, i'm i'm changing it to january 3. yeah. >> don't wish me happy new year. i don't even care if you wish. we have been birthday. what do you think about that? >> chris wallace is here happy new year to you, mr. wallace, and also, look, just preemptively say thank you for being on with us this morning. cnn, news central here. no, no. don't do that. no, because i know i'm going to have to say

you're welcome and i just gonna be an outright know the happy birthday thing was very interested. we've gotten into a long in about this because he said it becomes a job, but i have to say i kind of agree with them and particularly god forbid, you should have a big birthday like he and i had last year you get dozens of thank you. notes and you can't not answer them. you've got to say incidentally, you did not wish me a happy birthday last year and you've got to answer them, but i have i have a postscript to the story larry, david is in washington dc. we had dinner last night. i fully anticipated that i was going to pick up the check, but he pulled that thing where he had talked to the waiter ahead of time and he got the check and the credit card. so he picked up dinner again and you know what i did this morning. i wrote him a thank you note and there's gonna be held to pay i >> just to him off, which is actually probably the right thing to do. i mean, it's more of material for him next time >> no wait. and he he views

that a lot. if anybody if you're larry david van, if you watch seinfeld, if you watch curb your enthusiasm, especially you know, that there are every day things like happy new year, happy birthday. a thank you. note after that, he finds enormously annoying. and he makes enormously entertaining and as one of the reasons it's so much fun to be around them in this interview. and you can watch it right now while no, 10:00, when you guys are up the air, you can watch it at 10:00 on macs on who's drug and chris wallace, we talk about politics. he talks about donald trump. we talk about barbara walters i had the temerity to ask them how much he's worth and that turns ugly that conversation because on the internet he's going to be mad at me for saying this on the internet. it says that the over-under is half $1 and when i bring that up, he gets very offended well, good for you to bring it up. can i just ask how many dinners are there between

you and larry, david? because that's what i'm understanding now that there may be like a regular dining in pattern between the two of you know, they'll probably been two dinners and frankly, after my thank you note today, that could be the end of that. i can see that as a breach of the trust between the two of us, but i will say he has a lovely dinner companion. we talked some serious w was very funny but the best part of it is his wife, ashley, who is utterly charming and frankly, i don't know what she sees in him >> mr. is very quickly. what was it, you know, if you're talking to him for your show friend? extended interview how prepared are you for the back-and-forth, you're going to have with one of the world's funniest guys, how do you approach that >> well you know, you do a certain amount, but you gotta, you gotta roll with it and awful thing is that if you're an old, an extended conversation with larry david, it feels like an episode of

curve. you kind of get into that exaggerated back-and-forth and i have to tell you my staff cannot wait for this week to be over because i've been coming out of my office like larry, david and doing schtick all all this week. and i think it's annoying them a great deal. of chris wallace, great to have you on your inaugural appearance here on cnn news central, the early edition. a. thank you. note will be coming and you could see more of the conversation between no, no, no, no. no, no, no, no, no. >> i don't want to >> respond to what it's endless >> watch the whole episode streaming on macs. the minute that this show is over. kris, great to see you this morning. larry david's is >> best when he's moos irritated and now we know maybe for chris wallace as well. >> all right. hold your horses beyonce has officially gone country her new album cowboy carter dropping overnight

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has a look at his life and the legacy that he leaves >> luis, gossett junior played some of tv stage and films most recognized characters but behind the scenes, he was an activist with an audacious goal ending racism das debuted on stage as a teenager, a basketball injury had knocked him off the court. he signed up for an acting class and found his calling grew up with the this ability to seek anything without the shadows of my mind, that first broadway role wasn't a play aptly named, take a giant step. other parts followed like the blacks and are raisin in the sun bostic continued to hone his craft with eye toward hollywood taking classes alongside marilyn monroe and martin landau what as a black actor, it wasn't easy i really learned the importance of what it takes to to, to survive in

this town. and i had to act as he felt second-class that's in just the oldest of being an african american person in america in 1961, >> gaza had made his silver screen premiere in the film version of a race and then the sun. >> why >> during the 70s, he appeared in several blaxploitation films, but struggled to land significant and good paying roles that all changed in 1977 when he played fiddler in the groundbreaking tv miniseries, roots >> play me a song. i watched >> the das, it initially didn't want the part. >> he >> explained in this television academy foundation interview the started doing the research and i realized there's no such thing as an oval tom and those particular people, those step and such, it's those particular people if you hadn't that survived i wouldn't be sitting >> he earned an emmy for his breakout performance and routes

but it was his 1982 portrayal of a marine drill instructor you said you wanted to meet me in private in an officer and a gentleman that thrust gosset into bonafide stardom was the only black actor that went up >> for the officers gentlemen five. and i got it. >> gossett won an oscar for best supporting actor. >> want to talk to you? >> he went on to play more tough military roles in the iron eagle movies. and the miniseries sadat where he portrayed the late egyptian leader >> speak up now, in >> 1992, he won a golden globe playing civil rights activists, sydney williams and hbo's the josephine baker story but then the actor's career fell flat by the early 2000s, he was hooked on drugs and alcohol addictions, he said were fueled by racism experienced throughout his career by 2006, gosset was sober and eager to deal with racism head-on. he

started racism a non-profit foundation dedicated to ending racial prejudice starting with youngsters early in 2010, gosset announced he had prostate cancer then went on to have a distinguished decade mostly in tv shows like madam secretary. it's exactly what he was an hbo's watchmen through it all. he continued to fight >> racism and said an example as an actor, as an activist. and as a gentlemen >> wow, what a career, what a life. thank you so much. stephanie in the elm for pulling that all together. luis, gasset junior was 87. sarah. all right. brand new this morning, queen bay says it's not a country album. it's a beyond say, album julie the games or nothing we've been

deep >> 20 is a reason man raise this kid is unknown. man that at any node i know you recognize that when the highly anticipated second act to be onces renaissance trilogy, cowboy carter released today the beyhive is abuzz over its rich symbolism and hidden gems. a houston natives new music is being embraced as country and is expected to bring new eyes and ears for the genre while also making space for newer country artists of color, a client classic move for queen bay with us now to discuss as beyond say reporter for usa today and the tennessee in cache macleay. thank you so much. the fact that there has to be a beyond say, reporter tells you everything about her influence on culture and the economic juggernaut that she is she was the really clear about what kind of pushed her to put this part of the album out when it comes to country music, it was born out of controversy, correct?

>> absolutely you know, a lot of people think that's in reference to her 2016 performance at the cma is what the chicks of her 20 2016. daddy lessons which kinda got some backlash and so now be honest thing is sort of highlighting the irony of this because let's country music has a lot of invisible and black roots. so she's very intentional with this album, cowboy carter, about highlighting that, about including black artists past and present, and country music music vendors can you give me some sense of the response so far i know it just dropped last night, but already there was there was always ball is when something drops beyond say, what are >> you, what are you seeing? what are you hearing and have you listened to what yourself? >> oh, absolutely. i stayed up all night listening to the album and i started when the clock struck midnight and i think that's the same for a lot of fans in the and i think this album is absolutely

groundbreaking as i said, she was very intentional about i'll featuring country music legends as well as boundary pushers like post malone, miley cyrus, and crossover artists like willie jones and shubi in tanner, adele, as well as paying homage to sort of country music tight end's like linda martell. he's considered the past miami are so many ways for black artists in the genre, although she didn't always get her flowers >> when you look at this album, there's always sort of a deeper meaning, a personal journey that you go on. what's the sort of broader cultural meaning to this, this album as a whole. i mean, she had this huge hit that's all over for every social media site you can possibly imagine before this came out, this was her first single. what what are some of the things that she's championing here >> yeah. well, i think it's clear that this album has so

many layers, so many messages from beyond, say, one of them being the invisible roots of country music. and highlighting those black musicians and legends who did, who weren't always highlighted within this genre. as well as, you she said, this isn't a country music album. this is a bian say, album, but i think she was really saying this isn't just a country music album. her single texas hold em, has charted across multiple jobs rose as she's saying that she's not bound to these constraints that people so badly want to put her in. and she's shown that even within the collaboration's and crossover artist in the album cache, macleay. thank you so much. i appreciate it thank you >> there's a beyond say report or she is just on beyond say there's a lot to say, a lot to say. >> and cnn is continuing coverage or beyond saying >> will >> continue this has been cnn news central thank you so much for, bei h